The Irish standard., 1887-07-16

| Hammon's plan'ng mill at Anoka was
entirely consumed by fire Wednesday
evening about o'clock. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, $500,
The marriage Of Miss Rose A. Eyth
and Mike Noes, both of Pennington,
was solemnized at st. Joseph's church.
Rosemount. Sunday at p. III, Rev. a !.
A. Hurley officiating. The event was a
very quiet one, only the immediate
friends of the couple being present.
Six bill posters for Barrett circus we're
arrested last Tuesday night at Fergus
Falls for being drunk and resisting al
officer They were brought before
Juuge Shonts Wednesday morning and
fined, three Of them Sl2 each or twelve
days i'll jail, and three ST each, or seven
days in jail
| The twentieth annual meeting Of Min
! oesota Editors anti Publishers was held
at Anoka Wednesday, aud about $50.
newspaper men from all parts of the
state were in attendance. At 2 o'clock
the guests OF Anoka's hospitable people
were treated TO magnificent banquet at
the city hall The editors left on the
evening train On an excursion to Dnlntl1
Tower, Superior and other lake ports.
! Excitement occurred at Milan about
! noon Tuesday as A. Anderson, dealer in
general merchandise, announced that
pocketbook containing ts4, 900 worth OF
valuable papers WAS stolen ont of Ills
safe. The empty pocketbook was found
in I. Anderson lumber yard, which led
to the discovery of the thief, and after q
while the papers we're also found scat
tered around in the back yard.
Charles Sellers, Of the lumber firm Of
Sellers & Owens, and one Of the COM
missioners of ST. Louis county, at Tower
was badly hurt ut 1870 p. NJ. Wednesday
by saw bursting in one Of his mills.
Il is feared his injuries will prove fatal
MIR. Sellers is we'll known il Minnesota
as business man, and has many friends
who regret the accident. He was
formerly in the lumber and logging
business at Chippewa Falls, Wis. llr.
Sellers is also mayor of the village OF
Tower.
DAKOTA.
Full returns from Brown county give
Aberdeen ,Os2 majority over Columbia,
for the county seat over 1000 votes be-
ing polled. The canvass will be made
Tuesday. Trouble is feared when the
records are to be removed.
Harvesting Of small grain is in progress
in Yanl1ton and adjoining counties.
Barley will average twenty-four bushels
to the acre Wheat and other small
grains are above the average, and far
mers are jnbilant. The reported presence
of chinch bugs and grasshoppers in this
vicinity is untrue. There are no grass
hoppers in the territory, and no chinch
bugs within 8 radius Of 100 miles.
WISCONSIN,
Chinch bugs have damaged the wheat
around Chippewa Falls at least 25 per
cent.
The old guns1nith named Thinning,
rho has had small shop at Chippewa
Falls for year or two past, committed
,licide by drowning a day or two since,
The gold discoveries at Rock Elm,
Pierce Co. Wis, are important ones, and
q company Of minneapolis and Prescott
b capitalists has been organized for mining
purposes.
A series OF eight forger1es were COM
mitted in Chippewa Falls Tuesday for
amounts varying from $50 to $40. The
work was bun Cling and of the most bold
faced character The writing Of the
signatures OF various lumbermen was
without any attenlptat imitation Of their
hand writing. The checks we're passed
on tradesmen for goods to small amounts,
and the difference obtained in cash.
A combination, headed by Weyer-
hauser, Lenkman & Rutledge, of Rock
Island, and embracing Cable, of Rock
Island, Gardner, Bachelor & Wells, of
Lyons, To-, and local lumbermen, has
purchased all the pine land tributary to
The Chippewa river, owned by the
Knapp, Stout Lumber company of Me-
nomonie, Wis. This company has no
mills on the Chippewa river, and hence
sells out to other manufacturers. The
tracts sold contain 15O, 900, 900 feet, con-
sideration S6o0,000. Henry W. Sage
has sold to the Mississippi RiYer Log
ging company tract of pine on the
Flambeau river for $32, 900.
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